Middle East

Fresh tensions break out in ties between Moscow and Tel Aviv, which are already entangled in a row over the downing of a Russian aircraft in Syria, this time over the Palestine issue and the Ukraine conflict.

The Arab League has in a resolution condemned Australia and Brazil for recognizing al-Quds as the “capital” of the Israeli regime, urging the two states to “abide by international law” concerning the status of the city.

The health conditions of Bahraini political activists Naji Fateel and Ali Haji have been increasingly deteriorating over the past weeks due to a hunger strike the pair have joined to voice their strong dissent against the dire living conditions in Bahrain’s notorious Jaw prison, a new report says.

The Arab League has strongly condemned Turkey's repeated airstrikes against the purported positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, stressing that “such actions are in violation of the Iraqi state’s sovereignty.”

Syrian government forces have discovered a remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) along with a considerable amount of munitions at a former stronghold of foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists in the country’s Southwestern Province of Dara’a.

Yemeni Ansarullah Movement says army soldiers and allied fighters from popular committees have managed to frustrate a large-scale offensive by Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen's former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in Hudaydah, hours after a UN-brokered ceasefire started at midnight in the strategic port city.